Warhammer 40: Starting as a Rogue Trader

Chapter 366 Greenskins' Battlefield Skills

Fletcher and Olivia watched as the planet Sintira was continuously devoured, as if they were admiring an art piece.

The remaining warships without warp drive capabilities were also unable to escape; the aftershocks of the planet-destroying weapon severely damaged the warships, making it impossible for them to escape the subspace rift.

Countless invisible tentacles seemed to be grabbing them and constantly dragging them into the warp rift.

The billions of tormented souls on Sintira crossed the veil of reality and poured into the highest heavens, further widening this rift.

The navigators and crew of the Tzeentch-based Dakka family on Comos stared in disbelief at the immense power achievable by psychic energy.
The capital of an important sector of the Empire was thus destroyed.
The loss of such a world would be devastating for the Empire, as it would mean the loss of a vital strategic location for the Calesis sector, along with the loss of protection for some nearby resource planets.

The attack, which combined a large amount of subspace energy and the power of the four Chaos Gods, caused alarms to sound continuously within Comos.

The massive amount of mixed chaotic evil god power from the subspace caused Comos's world-destroying weapon array to malfunction.

Some of the array of gun muzzles were dissolved due to the massive energy surge.

Komos will not be able to unleash such an attack again until the maintenance is complete.

"Fletcher, the weapon array has been overloaded and damaged. Repairing the nanometals will take time."

"Can't we do it again? Damn it. If only those nanomachine weapons were here."

Comos was a specialist in one area but not the other. While pushing psionic technology to its limits, he also abandoned other technological weapons, such as nanobots that could devour an entire planet.

Compared to subspace weapons that may overload, these weapons, while not as explosive, are more stable, durable, and can be used repeatedly.

The appearance of subspace rifts in this galaxy has made the surrounding space increasingly unstable.

The Star Pioneer ramped up its engine power to maximum and barely escaped the aftershocks.

"Fletcher, the enemy still has surviving warships heading towards us. These warships look very much like those of a colonial expansion fleet!"

The style of the Star Pioneer was quite different from that of other Imperial warships, but Fletcher was not worried at all, and his eyes were full of mockery.

"A pioneering colony ship?! A bunch of idiots who only know how to copy others. When I was observing on that planet, I found that they used a lot of technology from our time, but most of these technologies were downgraded versions. However, their ability to maneuver instantly is quite special. I don't remember that the colony fleet was equipped with these things, right? But relying solely on mobility is not enough to win."

"So what if we don't have a star-destroying array? Conventional weapons are more than enough to destroy these insectoid warships! Aim all shipboard weapons at that colony ship! Those usurpers must have escaped aboard this ship!"

Compared to Comos, the Star Pioneer also appears exceptionally small.

Fletcher looked disdainful. In his eyes, although the ship was stronger than other ships of the Empire, how could a colony ship possibly stand against a creation of the highest psionic technology from his time?

The Star Pioneer launched its attack, and its Nova Cannon, capable of vaporizing subspace energy, struck Comos directly.

Although the subspace energy surrounding it was evaporated, the sturdy outer armor was sufficient to withstand such bombardment.

Although it is more effective than other shipborne weapons of the Empire, the damage it can cause is still very limited.

Seeing that his attack had not achieved the desired effect, Gao Yi still ordered the fleet to advance at full speed.

"Gao Yi! Your warships pose no threat to him! You can't continue advancing blindly like this! Your warships can't withstand the enemy's shipborne weapons!"

Guilliman couldn't help but remind him! He thought Gao Yi had lost his mind because of the huge losses caused by the destruction of Sintira.

“Guilliman! I’m not acting impulsively… Don’t worry!”

The Star Pioneer entered Comos's attack range, and Guilliman could even see the energy flashes from its cannons. Guilliman's heart jumped into his throat.

The next second, the points of light from the jump, which shimmered like stars, filled the nearby void.

At the same time, countless alarms sounded in Comos's detection array.

The screen of the recognition system was suddenly filled with countless red dots.

The arriving force consisted of reinforcements from the humans, Protoss, and Zerg of Agathos.

All the emergency forces within the Montgomery dynasty teleported to the vicinity of the Star Pioneer, establishing a defensive line in front of it.

Meanwhile, the Spear of Adun, which was constantly releasing psionic fluctuations, teleported directly to the location near Komos, along with a large number of Protoss auxiliary fleets.

The surrounding blasphemous chaotic energy impacted the Spear of Adun's energy shield, but it could not affect the Spear of Adun or the other Protoss warships.

The Protoss's psionic energy counteracted the impact.

Kara protects their will from being greatly affected by negative energy.

The intense warp energy even activated the Spear of Adun's unique spirit bone material hull, granting it greater strength and self-repair speed.

In addition to the Protoss warships, Kerrigan's Zerg forces also entered the battlefield on a large scale aboard Leviathans.

This time, the biological fleet on Char was mobilized in its entirety. The threat posed by Comos made Gao Yi hold nothing back. The power of the Zerg was known to almost everyone, so there was no need to hide it anymore. Among these nearly three hundred Leviathan biological warships, there were also ten giant Leviathans.

These Leviathans were almost the size of Imperial cruisers, far exceeding the size of regular Leviathans.

The largest of these Leviathans was even comparable in size to an Imperial heavy cruiser, and this Leviathan became Kerrigan's flagship.

The moment the Zerg warship appeared, countless streams of biological acid and plasma cannons slammed into Komos's armor.

Some Leviathans even lunged at Comos, attempting to tear through Comos's armor with their rams and tentacles.

After the victory of the Hades system in the war against the Leviathan tentacles, the biggest beneficiary was the Zerg. With the fusion of their genes, the Zerg not only improved their ground forces, but also absorbed the bio-ship genes of the Terran hive in terms of biological warships.

Originally smaller and weaker in void combat, the Zerg bio-warships have now almost reached the level of the Terran bio-warships in terms of size, bio-armor strength, and attack capabilities.

Kerrigan's flagship was formed from the genes of the Nergigante mothership, which housed the Norn queen.

These large bio-warships, like savage beasts, cannot be produced directly using energy but can only evolve from biomass. After winning the war, the biomass obtained from the Tyranid tentacles was used to manufacture these large bio-warships.

Meanwhile, many more warships were still being conceived on Char.

This is also the first time the Zerg have mobilized such a large Zerg fleet.

When he saw the sudden appearance of the enemy, Fletcher's expression changed again. He couldn't understand why, every time he thought he had the upper hand, the other party always managed to suppress or counter him.
"What are these creatures?! Olivia, have you ever seen any records of these alien creatures?"

“No… I’ve never seen any record of such a creature! Perhaps it was born after we fell into slumber, Fletcher. We must be careful; these warships all have high-energy psionic reactions!”

Komos's detection equipment detected strong psionic reactions on both the Protoss's technologically advanced warships and the Zerg's flesh-and-blood warships.
Especially the Spear of Adun.

When did naturally born psionic races in the galaxy become so worthless?!

The Protoss and Zerg fleets completely surrounded Komos.

Comos's conventional weapons began to operate at full capacity and retaliate.

The destructive rays tore flesh apart.

Small Leviathans were being destroyed one after another, but this also released more flying units. However, they successfully covered the advance of the following forces towards Comos.

The Spear of Adun also began exchanging fire with Comos.

Both possess the ability to repair themselves.

However, even with its hundred-kilometer size, the Spear of Adun appears somewhat insignificant on the planet-sized Comos.

However, the Adun Spear's solar rays became the only weapon on the battlefield capable of quickly inflicting direct damage on Komos.

Solar rays with temperatures at stellar levels washed over Comos's outer armor, causing a portion of the outer armor to melt at a visible rate.

Looking into the gap, you can already see the passageway inside Comos.

"The breach has been successfully created! Deploy the warp prisms! For Aiur! For Lord Highlord! Kerrigan! Send your Zerg to join my forces and break through!"
It's too difficult for our firepower to destroy this behemoth directly! We must destroy the enemy from within!

Comos is simply too large; one can imagine how difficult it would be to destroy this planetary-class warship directly with firepower.

Upon learning that Gao Yi was in danger, the Protoss and Zerg forces mobilized in full force.

A large number of folding prisms were sent into the gap.

Leviathan then clung directly to the breach that had been created!
The Zerg are immune to the negative effects of the dense subspace energy.

A large number of Leviathans used their tentacles to send massive numbers of Zerg into Comos in a short time.

Unaware of its internal routes, they used a massive number of Zerg to outmaneuver it.

One after another, wild beasts spearheaded the charge, cleaving through one isolation gate after another!

Tzeentch's attack from within destroyed a large portion of Comos's internal defenses, which now makes things easier for Gao Yi.

"Fletcher! The outer armor has been breached! The enemy has entered the Comos! We haven't eliminated enough Remnant units! We must retreat back into the warp!"

The Tzeentch demon attached to the system provides the two with information on the number of enemies and the direction of attack.

The Protoss and Zerg's delivery capabilities surprised both of them.
Just how many troops were sent in all at once? And that number kept increasing every second.

"No matter what, we must first eliminate the remnants to stop them! And immediately prepare to leap into the warp!"

"The Star Destroyer Array consumed a lot of energy, I need some time!"

The warp engines within Comos began to build up energy again, but the other three gods clearly did not intend to provide Comos with any more assistance, which slowed Comos down considerably.

Fletcher and Olivia were once again drawn to a peculiar thought... Tzeentch's voice was instructing them to use their psionic powers to open warp portals and summon "their army" from the warp.

The two mobilized their psionic energy, and one after another, warp portals were opened, and the demon army began to appear out of thin air from the psionic energy.

This time, however, only Tzeentch's demon army remained. The three gods once again felt deceived and were no longer willing to be used by Tzeentch.

They also launched an attack on the Protoss and Zerg who entered Komos, alongside the Extinction Relic.

The Zerg and Protoss who entered Comos are doing everything they can to try and destroy Comos and find Fletcher and his companion.

Gao Yi stopped Artanis and Kerrigan from joining the attack.

The situation inside is still unknown, so it's safer to let the Zerg and Templars investigate. The Zerg can be consumed at will, and if the Templars are seriously injured, they can simply warp back to the Spear of Adun.

In order to give them greater combat power in the fight against the Extinction Relics and the demons, Gao Yi also ordered the priests on the Synapse Condensation Machine to start operating it.

The priests in charge immediately started the pre-set program.

The minds of hundreds of millions of orc boys in life support pods began to be guided and controlled.

Images of Zerg and Protoss began to appear in their minds.

In their eyes, the Zerg and Protoss have also become servants of the second brother, the Mao.

"I figure the Protoss, and these bugs, are incredibly strong. I don't think they're afraid of psionic spells! Let's just go for it!"

As these orc lads pondered this together, the Zerg and Protoss who landed in Komos also underwent changes.

The waaaagh energy did not reach the Protoss and Zerg populations.

Instead, it acts specifically on these landing forces, so that there is enough waaagh energy to strengthen them.

I'm activating my thinking power!
In an instant, a layer of green light began to cover the bodies of every Protoss and Zerg.

The demons battling the Zerg Protoss discovered that their attacks and spells imbued with chaotic magic were becoming less and less lethal!

Tzeentch's magic might have been able to incinerate an entire passageway of worms, but now these worms can withstand Tzeentch's magical fire for a longer time, enough to launch a final attack on the demons before they die.

If this is true for the Zerg, then it goes without saying that the Templars are even more resistant to psionic spells.

The physical strength of these Protoss and Zerg has also been greatly increased.

Chaos has clashed with the Greenskins quite a bit in the Milky Way... but the fact that this Waaagh energy has such a large-scale effect on other races is something Tzeentch has never seen before.

In the battle between Chaos and the Greenskins, there are precedents of Greenskins being controlled and corrupted by Chaos evil magic. However, once corrupted, these Chaos Greenskins change their object of worship. They no longer believe in Brother Goma, and naturally, they can no longer utilize Waaagh energy.

With the support of this special battlefield, massive numbers of Zerg and elite Protoss began to break through layer after layer of defense.

Some Zerg individuals that had committed more killings even began to defy common sense by possessing larger sizes.

A small group of Protoss are in the same boat, and their control over psionic energy is becoming increasingly powerful.

Just as the Greenskins gave birth to Orc warlords and Warbosses.

"Olivia! Is the warp engine ready yet?!"

As the Zerg and Protoss drew ever closer, and with over twenty Extinction Relics unable to control the entire area, Fletcher grew increasingly anxious.

"It's ready to start!"

"Immediately jump!!"

Entering the subspace is often when a warship is most vulnerable, and the Comos is no exception.

The warship began to suffer severe damage under the continuous bombardment, but Comos continued to forcefully jump despite the attack.

But what he didn't know was that enemies in the real universe were trying to destroy him, and the same was true in the warp.

The emperor's black sun also drew near its location.

(End of this chapter)